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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0034",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1004",
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 "display_title": "Jharkhand Rail Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Rail Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "East Singhbhum",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Jamshedpur (Tatanagar)",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Tatanagar Government Railway Police Station",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Jharkhand Rail Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand",
 "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 107 of 2010",
 "citation": "(2017) 1 AIR Jhar R 719; (2017) 1 JBCJ 357; (2016) 4 JLJR 620",
 "judges": [
  "Pramath Patnaik"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-09-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "1997-03-20",
 "incident_year": 1997,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 307",
  "IPC 379",
  "Arms Act s.25",
  "Arms Act s.27"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Tatanagar GRPS, Jharkhand Rail Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Tatanagar GRPS, Jharkhand Rail Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Jamshedpur resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "railway",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/483850/arvind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2017) 1 AIR Jhar R 719",
  "(2017) 1 JBCJ 357",
  "(2016) 4 JLJR 620"
 ],
 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed the writ petition of Constable challenging his dismissal for shooting dead the Officer-in-Charge of a Jamshedpur resident on 20 March 1997 after being refused leave. The court held that Departmental Proceeding No. 37/1998 had proved the charge, that Police Manual Rules 844/847 and natural justice were not breached, and that the proceeding was not held behind his back. It found neither the dismissal order of 13 April 2000 nor the appellate order of 12 October 2009 called for interference. The dismissal therefore stands; the criminal case (GRPS Case No. 32/97) proceeded separately. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed the writ petition of Constable challenging his dismissal for shooting dead the Officer-in-Charge of a Jamshedpur resident on 20 March 1997 after being refused leave. The court held that Departmental Proceeding No. 37/1998 had proved the charge, that Police Manual Rules 844/847 and natural justice were not breached, and that the proceeding was not held behind his back. It found neither the dismissal order of 13 April 2000 nor the appellate order of 12 October 2009 called for interference. The dismissal therefore stands; the criminal case (GRPS Case No. 32/97) proceeded separately.",
 "court_quote": "the impugned order dated 13.04.2000 at Annexure 5 and appellate order dated 12.10.2009 at Annexure 2 do not call for interference by this Court. Accordingly, the writ petition, sans merit is dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Writ against dismissal for murder of superior officer dismissed; dismissal stands.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Other",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2016-09-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2017) 1 AIR Jhar R 719; (2017) 1 JBCJ 357; (2016) 4 JLJR 620",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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